Verse 25

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:4 : 4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
  • Job 8:20 : 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him] ; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him] ; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.
  • Ps 58:11 : 11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
  • Ps 94:2 : 2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the proud [their] desert.
  • Ps 98:9 : 9 Before Jehovah; For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.
  • Eccl 7:15 : 15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth [his life] in his evil-doing.
  • Eccl 8:12-13 : 12 Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him: 13 but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
  • Job 9:22-23 : 22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
  • Job 34:17-19 : 17 Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous [and] mighty?-- 18 [Him] that saith to a king, [Thou art] vile, [Or] to nobles, [Ye are] wicked; 19 That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
  • Ps 11:5-7 : 5 Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. 6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For Jehovah is righteous; He loveth righteousness: The upright shall behold his face.
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come] . 2 He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
  • Mal 3:18 : 18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
  • John 5:22-27 : 22 For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son; 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life. 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself: 27 and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
  • Rom 3:5-6 : 5 But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
  • 2 Cor 5:10 : 10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.